I've been taking photos all over the country last year and now I want to create a map with all the places I've been. Luckily all my photos are geotagged which makes the whole process easier.

The main problem is that I haven't found a program that puts in a map all the photos you have. Picasa has a great embedded function for this, but it only works with the photos you have selected or belong to a specific album.

Is there software that scans all my files and creates a map accordingly?

Uhmmm, xp? I'm using a PC platform, so any window based solution (that no requires an specific version) is ok for me.
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AndresJan 18 '13 at 20:04

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I have a strong preference for making these questions consider all operating systems. Many programs are cross platform, and it's nice to at least know about options that may be available on other OSes. If we have separate questions for each OS, there's a lot of duplication.
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mattdmJan 20 '13 at 22:09

@mattdm - I think that is a good rule to "open up" the question to all platforms, although as a question "asker" clearly they might only have access to certain platforms so the other ones may not help them at all. I like the idea of less duplicates.
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dpollittJan 23 '13 at 3:15

Sadly this is a LR4 is only compatible with Win7 and i'm stuck here with XP :(
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AndresJan 13 '13 at 15:06

That isn't entirely true. It runs on Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8, as well as multiple different versions of OS X. Windows XP is 11 years old so I guess they just decided to stop supporting it.
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dpollittJan 13 '13 at 15:10

Telling people to upgrade is a sliperry slope. Often the an application requires a new OS and a new OS requires a new computer and a new computer requires new money.... and it may not work with other legacy application that someone needs, and that requires new VM software....
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ItaiJan 14 '13 at 18:55

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On the other hand XP is a 12 years old OS, and Microsoft will not support it anymore after March 2014. With this I mean: I agree that upgrading the OS just to have a geotagged map of photos is overkill, but probably it's an upgrade that should be planned this year anyway. There is also the alternative of buying a Windows 8 x86 DVD and install it on virtualbox in the current system, and run Lightroom in the virtual machine.
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Marco MpJan 20 '13 at 19:00

Geotag may work for you. It's written in Java and is compatible with a number of OS's. You can even run it from the linked site without actually installing it on your system (insofar as a Java app isn't installed when you run it...)

I would recommend that whatever package you decide on that you make backup copies of your image directories until you're satisfied that the geotagging software hasn't caused any problems with the image files...

Gpicsync is an open source software that can run in Windows, Linux, or Mac OS. It includes a tool to export your geotagged pictures into a KMZ file. You can then use this KMZ file to create a map in Google Maps (and probably other mapping applications).

You can use Flickr for this. Simply upload your images to Flickr, and it will Map all those with geotag info.

If you prefer software that does this, I highly recommend Photolinker. I use their GPSPhotolinker software, which takes GPS track data (from a GPS device) and matches it with photos via the time stamps, then geotags the images. Photolinker takes all your geotagged images and puts them on a map. (FYI this is Mac only software)

Once I had the photos tagged with a time and a place, I just uploaded them (I'm pretty sure I sent them to Flickr) and had EveryTrail go get them. Once EveryTrail got them, it decoded their geotag and was able to place them on the map. Using the time stamp it was able to order them as well. Then it made a nice interactive map giving a trail and a photo at each of the points.

Could you show us an example of the end result?
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ImreJan 15 '13 at 8:32

And could you elaborate on your answer, maybe describe EveryTrail a bit more?
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MikeWJan 15 '13 at 9:11

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jrista♦Jan 22 '13 at 18:25

@jrista Thanks for letting me know as I'm still learning my way around the stackexchange sites. I didn't think I had enough reputation points to add comments. I forgot I don't need them to comment on my own post. (doh!)
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MrCarneyJan 22 '13 at 22:24

What makes it "more fun", and for that matter, why is "fun" important in this case? And perhaps most importantly, by the site rules, if you are affiliated with a site or product, you are welcome to talk about title in answers where it fits, but you must disclose that.
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mattdmApr 11 '14 at 11:58